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This Week at Rotary: January 18, 2018
 
Centerville Rotary President, Peachy Metzner leads the meeting.
 
Rotarians were pleased to present a donation check to Bogg Ministries thanks to the generosity of members' happy bucks!
 
Our speakers this week were from Waste Management, sharing information about the science of landfill operations.
 
Peter Lucas and Kathy Trent were very knowledgeable on the Stony Hollow Landfill.
 
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Member Birthdays
Sofie Ameloot
January 3
 
Boyd Preston
January 6
 
Jack Workman
January 10
 
Spouse Birthdays
Maureen Perez
January 14
 
Anniversaries
John Callander
Bev Callander
January 15
 
Join Date
Dick Hoback
January 1, 1974
44 years
 
Donald K. Gerhardt
January 1, 1974
44 years
 
Frank Perez
January 1, 1999
19 years
 
Jen Gibbs
January 1, 2013
5 years
 
John J. Beals
January 1, 1993
25 years
 
Rick L. Terhune
January 1, 1993
25 years
 
Sally D. Beals
January 1, 1993
25 years
 
Wayne Davis
January 1, 2012
6 years
 
Jeffrey Senney
January 5, 2004
14 years
 
Boyd Preston
January 9, 2014
4 years
 
Rob Hendrix
January 12, 2017
1 year
 
Edward Flohre
January 13, 2000
18 years
 
John Callander
January 13, 1999
19 years
 
Arnie Biondo
January 15, 2015
3 years
 
Dan Johnson
January 17, 2013
5 years
 
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Kitty Ullmer
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Jan 25, 2018
Tour the GEM (Dayton Bicycling Event)
Feb 01, 2018
Miami Valley Down Syndrome Association
Feb 08, 2018
Brunner Literacy Center
Feb 15, 2018
Avoid Medicade Spend Down Trap
Feb 22, 2018
Matthew 25: Ministries
Mar 01, 2018
Dayton Society of Natural History
Mar 08, 2018
At Risk Youth Cross Fit Program
Mar 15, 2018
4 Way Speech Contestants
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Russell Hampton
National Awards Services Inc.
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Rotary's Theme for 2017-18
 
Centerville Rotary Club Meeting Jan. 18, 2018
 
 
The GREETERS​​​: ​​​​  
 
 
01/18/2018  Jennifer Gibbs and Ann Blackburn
01/25/2018  Graham Ross and Jeff Senney
02/01/2018  Mark Gerken and Brad Huffman
02/08/2018  Brad Huffman and Tom Broadwell
02/15/2018  Jack Durnbaugh and Sofie Ameloot
 
Here are our official greeters for our Jan. 18, 2018 meeting: Jen Gibbs and Ann Blackburn. Ann is greeting our guest from BOGG Ministries, Brennen Waldron, while Jen, who arrived earlier, is behind her, and you see our current president Peachy Metzner and our past president Ron Hollenbeck in the background. 
 
And before the meeting when the camera was still a bit cold from the weather outside, we see Adam Manning as one of the first to arrive, having missed last week's meeting due to sickness.
 
The master showman and hoverboard master, Pat Beckel, didn't show up this week, so we hope it was not due to any hoverboard mishap. This was from the week before.
 
President-Elect Boyd Preston is ever at the ready, putting up the banner, greeting people at the door, welcoming guests, etc. He even knows already that our next all-club projects day is in March and is preparing for it. 
 
Our Club President Peachy Metzner is all serious business when he and Chuck King discuss matters. 
 
John Callander makes a welcoming handshake from Jen look like an arm wrestling match. All in fun, we know, though it looks like Jen might win.
 
Jen points out that they appear to have matching sweaters, but John doesn't see the similarity.
 
And remember Pat, after executing his turn in front of the tree the week before, parted ways with the board. We hope he didn't wrench his back in doing so.
 
Tom Broadwell seems to always be having fun. He's the biggest ticket salesman for the Pancake Breakfast fund-raiser, and obviously good at sales.
 
Jack Durnbaugh and our guest speaker (R) Kathy Trent arrive at the same time.
 
Don Gerhardt never fails to have fun with picture taking, and he gets a lot of teasing about some of his jokes too. 
 
This picture shows two of the most dedicated members of the club, Carol Kennard and Jen Gibbs 
with Peachy and Jim Briggs in the background. Lots of camaraderie and fun all around, though Carol might prefer a walk in the park or forest.....
 
Lee Hieronymus always has witty comments. The hard-working man who can move bales of hay in frigid cold temps is a Santa in disguise.
 
Then there's our fun-loving past president Ron Hollenbeck with Peachy trying to shake hands with him and look where the two hands are...No arm wrestling here....just catch-as-catch-can.
 
And now Joyce Young arrives, lively as ever. Retired after 22 years as a Washington Twp. Trustee, she is featured in this past Washington Twp. newsletter.
 
Not sure what this grin was about, but it seems aimed at someone.
 
And Ann, our membership chair, is having fun high fiving someone.
 
PDG Harvey Smith is happy to be in out of the cold.
 
And Rebecca Quinones is teasing Lee Hieronymus about his latest addition to his face, a John Callander style mustache. 
 
A look at one of the table gatherings.
 
 
 
Boyd and Frank Perez, our Community Service Director, talk biz.
 
And Past-President Ron Hollenbeck actually extends his hand to Ann in a serious manner. Note the eye contact.
 
Ever-busy at the library, Kim makes time for Rotary.
 
The Centerville Rotary Club met at The Golf Club at Yankee Trace at noon. President Peachy (Mark) Metzner led the Pledge of Allegiance; Harvey Smith gave the prayer; and Peachy led a great rendition of God Bless America, sung by club members.
 
GUESTS at this week's meeting included: 
 
Our speakers Kathy Trent and Peter Lucas; Brennen Waldron; and Amy Hary. The first three are pictured elsewhere in this bulletin.
Amy Hary is on the left in the picture below, as seen at the Jan. 4 meeting. She returned to visit us today, but missed being caught on camera, so we see her here with her hostess Sofie Ameloot on the right and Sofie's daughter Noe Camp in the middle. We hope she returns to become a member.
 
ANNOUNCEMENTS: 
 
President Peachy Metzner welcomed everyone.
 
President Peachy said the next board meeting, held on Mondays, will be at 221 N. Main Street at the Centerville Activity Center...Across from Benham's Grove area.
 Peachy had Chuck King present a check to Brennen Waldron of BOGG Ministries for $801. Brennen thanked the club and said it will provide 1,600 meals for families in Centerville. "Hunger is a big issue in Dayton," he said, and he's glad to find a community fighting against hunger.
 
Chuck said the requests for grants have always gone for Project Warm, Project Read, and dictionaries and thesauri, but if anyone has some other ideas too there is now a grant writing committee in the club that can help out.
 
 Peachy said at the last meeting that the Rotary District Grant requests require attendance at the Feb. 6 Normandy Church training event. Chuck King and Joyce Young and Frank Perez showed an interest in attending. There is a free dinner at 5:30 p.m., Peachy said. The meeting runs from 6:15-8:15 p.m.
 
Peachy also noted then that the District 4-Way Test Speech Contest will be held April 8 and that Brian Hayes is working on that for the club. He did a great job last year, so no less is expected this year. Thanks, Brian.
 
The District Conference will be held April 27-28 at the Hollenbeck Baylay Center in Springfield. Instead of last year's basket presentations from each club, they want to do a district project and put together hygiene kits. Each club, if they choose to participate has to choose a certain item to provide. He said Joslyn Smith of the Fairborn Club is the chairperson for assembling the kits. Each club can then choose a charity to distribute the kits to. Peachy said last week that he thought Hannah's Treasure Chest might be an apt choice for our club. Club member Sofie Ameloot also noted that Artemis is in need of soaps, body lotions, shampoos and other toiletries for the women who have been victims of domestic violence. Such items may be brought to the club, if you have any you've collected and have not used at home. Peachy said John Beals dropped off a bag of items, and Sofie reminded others to bring what they might have next week.
 
Peachy asked Erich Eggers to begin the Happy Bucks, but to keep it short so we have time for our guest speakers. 
 
Below you see the two people who collect our Happy Bucks: Erich Eggers and Gerry Eastabrooks.
 
 
HAPPY BUCKS: The Happy Bucks go to help Brigid's Path this quarter. The organization works with babies born addicted, and their mothers. They took in their first baby recently.
 
Gerry Eastabrooks started the donations, noting that her employer, WesBanco has awarded her an exotic vacation trip in the Carribbean.
Then Peachy gave $10 for Brigid's Path. 
And Jen Gibbs gave for Boyd taking over her setup duties for the day, since she served as a greeter.
Harvey Smith gave for Brigid's Path and Carol Kennard gave for a new furnace to keep the family warm.
Joyce Young gave to mention that Bill Gates paid off 76 percent of Nigeria's national debt so they can use the money for polio vaccinations.
Tom Broadwell gave for seeing 50 degree temperatures coming, while Jim Briggs gave for a salute to brevity. 
John Callander gave to note that Jen got Boyd to do what was his job to do, "so I can go home now," he said.
Doc Hoback gave $5 for going to Florida and $3 more for the three weeks he's going to be down there mooching off others.
Arnie Biondo gave for Brigid's Path and Sofie Ameloot gave for her guest Amy Hary being at the club again.
Rebecca Quinones gave for the great job the city did of clearing her street from snow.
Dan Johnson gave for Brigid's Path, and Adam Manning said he was just "happy to be here."
Ron Hollenbeck gave for Brigid's Path and said something about "almost 50 percent, and the laughter crowded out the rest of the story.
 
Our Speakers of the day were: Peter Lucas, site engineer for Stony Hollow Landfill, and Kathy Trent, director of government affairs for waste management in Ohio. Her office is located at the Stony Hollow Landfill though she makes frequent trips to Columbus for legislative matters.
 
Our speakers are seen here with our Vice President Chuck King.
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Chuck said our two guests came to speak about the Stony Hollow Landfill and efforts to fix and alleviate odors coming from the landfill, which is along I-75 in Moraine. He said Kathy works on public lobbying, public relations, and public affairs, and that Peter has been an engineer for 18 years.
Kathy began by taking a look at the year 2016 and what engineering work has been done since then to work on fixing the odor problems.
 The area is landlocked with nearby residences, she said. She went through the list shown on the slide below,  showing just how large Waste Management, Inc. is and that it is also involved in recycling as well as waste collection.
Their next topic was the Stony Hollow Landfill itself. The next picture shows that it opened in 1995. It serves a five county area, though the majority is from Montgomery and Greene County, Kathy said. The third party takes the methane gas and puts it back to the pipe line, she said.
 
Peter passed around some samples of the highly engineered landfill components that are being used to try to fix the odor and gas problems. They have a geo-textile material that is put over the clay under the site, which has been compacted. When it's at a certain height they put a cone on the waste pile and earthen mound. They have a re-compacted clay liner, and a black liner that serves as a drainage layer to protect the other layer. Samples are seen below, desserts not included.
 
More than 22 acres have been temporarily capped.
Gas collection includes 50 percent methane and 50 percent carbon dioxide. 
They have extraction wells and use vacuum tubes to pull gas out of the decomposing matter, which creates liquid and gas. The decomposition is what creates the odors, Peter said. They currently have 22 acres of LFG vertical well drilling. They drill down about 140 feet to the waste but not to the base of the cone so they don't disturb the drainage protection lining.
They have used the temporary cap system and earthwork to form an odor barrier 
 
And here is an aerial view of the site itself. They have off site monitoring and an odor alert line, so they hope by using gas wells, the capping system and removing liquid, to keep the site so it does not effect the health of area residents.
 
They keep track of odor complaints and take air samplings at various locations. These are posted on their web site, Kathy said. Every six days they do monitoring to make sure there aren't any health issues. The OEPA has final findings and there are robust compliance plans to maintain a safe and environmentally sound facility, she said. They want to mitigate intermittent odors.
Recycling includes transferring materials from Dayton out of Fairborn to Columbus where the materials are combined with regional collection activities, Kathy said. A waste to energy is more efficient but that part of the company was sold, she said. She said people should not put plastic bags that they get from the grocery store with their recyclables because "they stop all the wheels" on the conveyer belts. Clean, dry boxes, but no dirty pizza boxes, are recyclable. Once items come to the waste site, they cannot be separated and recycled, she said. 
 
The meeting was closed with the reciting of the Rotary Four-Way Test.
 
 
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